9 September 2011
Rainfall Totals from Lee
Posted by Dan Satterfield
Last 7 days from the Advanced Hydrometeorological Prediction Service. Click image for a much larger version.
The heavy rains from Lee are falling on the very saturated ground that resulted from Irene, and severe flooding continues from Fairfax in Virginia, to Pennsylvania and New York tonight. It should start drying out some tomorrow and fairly dry weather is on the way for the next 7 days, unless TS Maria pulls a surprise on us.
Update: Dave Petley over at the Landslide blog has a great post on the consequences of all this rain.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.